Watch for opportunities to set fire to the grass on their windward, so as to envelope their trains if possible.

Leave no grass before them that can be burned.

Keep your men concealed as much as possible, and guard against surprise.

God bless you and give you success.
"YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST." Forty-four men were placed under his command to perform this work, and all of them were soon impressed, even to alarm, by the very evident reliance of their leader upon the God of Israel rather than upon any merely human wisdom of his own.
The first capture was not difficult.

After an all-night ride they came up with a supply-train of twenty-five wagons drawn by oxen.